It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in America and around the world."

We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it.

It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the end, there must remain the question: What kind of life is one society providing to the people that live in it?

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

The President is the peoples lobbyist.

The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.